Direct play of lossless audio [ALAC / FLAC]

[henning65 6]

I'm running emby on Synology NAS (DSM 6.xx). I'm using iOS 14 Phone / iPad and iMac (Catalina) to play music. I would like to ask wether the lossless audio files are transcoded to be played or not. As far as I understand (see https://support.emby.media/support/solutions/articles/44001161688-ios) emby can direct play Flac only. ALAC / m4a is not listed.

As far as I understand there might be a second bottleneck to overcome: the iOS device "normally" transcodes to AAC before playing. So does the embay-ios app follow this procedure? Or do I listen to hi-res lossless audio? (if my file is lossless audio).

In addition - what about m4b? is this format also ready for direct play?

[Luke 37008]

Hi, our iOS and macos apps can direct play all of those.

[henning65 6]

@Luke: I found this article: https://www.whathifi.com/advice/how-to-play-hi-res-music-your-iphone-0

It mainly says not all iOS music apps truly deliver hi res music - even when the source is hi res.

So please: could you confirm that the emby iOS app truly delivers hi res - that I will listen to hi res 

a) directly using the iPhone speakers

b) Bluetooth Speaker Sennheiser PXC 550

c) Bluetooth Speaker BEATS Powerbeats pro

 

thanks for this clarification

[Luke 37008]

Hi, yes the player we're embedding supports high-res audio.